Visual Basic® .NET by Example

What's Next

In this easy chapter you looked at shared members (fields, properties, and methods). You learned that shared members are class-level members that do not operate or exist at the instance level, as was the case with the regular members that you have studied before. We call these latter members instance members, to distinguish them from the class-level or shared members.

In the next chapter you will start what probably could be considered the most important topic of object-oriented programming: inheritance. You will learn the basis of inheritance—what it is, how it is implemented, and what are its consequences in the whole way you program, as well as in the details of how you implement classes.

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